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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often...
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon,...
Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones
Illuminating Gender and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Ricardo Palma’s Tradiciones is the first full-length account of Ricardo Palma informed by theories of cultural criticism. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela sheds new light on important aspects of Palma’s work. She offers a fresh interpretation of the relations between history and literature – perhaps...
Nossa and Nuestra América
Inter-American Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Is Brazil part of Latin America, or an island unto itself? As Nossa and Nuestra América: Inter-American Dialogues demonstrates, this question has been debated by Brazilian and Spanish American intellectuals alike since the early nineteenth century, though it has received limited scholarly attention...
Sandino's Nation
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed...
“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”
Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”...
by W. M. Raebeck
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
If you like one-off stories about unusual people doing unusual things in the mud, here you go. This story recounts a trek led by an eccentric Costa Rican who, living in New York, managed to recruit a band of willing followers to fulfill his life-long dream of locating a remote tribe reputed to live...
Nuevo álbum de zoología
Dibujos de Francisco Toledo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014
El Bestiario, es decir el libro que reúne versos o poemas en prosa sobre animales, es una de las tradiciones ancestrales de la poesía. El antecedente más remoto que conocemos es el Physiologus que data de los primeros siglos de nuestra era. Nuevo álbum de zoología continúa esta línea...
From Sugar to Revolution
Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of...
Searching for Mr. Chin
Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness”...
Hemispheric Imaginations
North American Fictions of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
What image of Latin America have North American fiction writers created, found, or echoed, and how has the prevailing discourse about the region shaped their work? How have their writings contributed to the discursive construction of our southern neighbors, and how has the literature undermined this...
The Postcolonial Epic
From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
"Of all the American people , the Quiché region of Guatemala have left us the richest mythological legacy. The story of creation, which appears in the Popol Vuh, which may be called the national book of the Quiché, in its rude and strange eloquence and poetic originality, is one of the most...